AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17110, 11 October 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE, October 10,

Tho total enlistments in the Commonwealth since the beginning of the year are 39,222.

MELBOURNE, October 10 Kris Jensen has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

Jensen is a Russian who was arrested on a charge of deserting from the steamer Port Kembla on September 12. He joined the liner as a greaser, and worked aboard until the last moment before the vessel sailed.

MELBOUENE, October 10. Tlw State ' Budget shows the year's revenue to have been ,£11,461,030, which, is ,£39,000 less than the expenditure. No I new taxation is proposed. Mr Watt proposes wider experiments with the Balsillie rain-inaking, installation at Hopetoun and in the 'Riverina SYDNEY, October 10. An official, estimate shows that the area under wheat in the State is 3,812,500 acres, a decrease of 697,692 acres compared with la6t year. The principal reasons are the labour ehort-'I age and the higher prices ruling for sheep and wool causing many farmers to abandon wheat for sheep. ' ■ sypney; October 10. Addressing, prior to their disbandment, the loyalists who came to v the Government's assistance durino- the strike, the Hon. G. Beeby said-""We have established this rule for the future that large bodies of men cannot strike and months afterwards claim to come back exactly as they knocked off. In future the community will be prepared to weigh the justice of the position,, and if it is unjust they will say to the men responsible for holding up the community—'You have no right to return to the positions you iormerly * occupied. 5 " - .

■ - . • MELBOURNE, October 10. Owing to the trouble with the seamen at Melbourne the inter-State shipping, of 411; states has been' rendered idle, and all sailings are cancelled. The wharf labourers have decided not to resume unless under pre-strike conditions.